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James Webb Space Telescope Project Director, Bill Ochs, and Charlie Jett Discuss the Critical Skills

Bill Ochs, Project Director for the James Webb Space Telescope, and Charlie Jett discuss the Critical Skills.

Democracy and the Critical Skills with Dr. Ethan Hollander & Charlie Jett

What is Democracy and what are the alternatives? What does a country need to support a healthy democratic form of government? Just how fragile is our Constitutional Republic? Join Charlie and Professor Ethan Hollander as they discuss these challenges – a clear and present danger to our country. Dr. Ethan Hollander is an Associate Professor […]

by Charles C. Jett

Fascism – How the Critical Skills Played an Essential Role in Its Evolution

The purpose of this post is to show how an evolution into Fascism made exquisite use of the Critical Skills. These Critical Skills included Production (establishing an idea for something new and then creating it), Information (the essential “facts” – perhaps “myths” is a better word), Analysis (drawing conclusions from the “myths’) and Communications (getting […]

by Charles C. Jett

The Crowd – Using Critical Skills to Manipulate Political Ideas and Destroy a Constitutional Republic

Charles-Marie Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) was a leading French polymath – an individual whose knowledge and ideas spans numerous subjects and who draws upon this knowledge to solve specific problems. He wrote a book, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, that became one of the seminal works of crowd psychology. In this book, […]

by Charles C. Jett

Overturning Roe v Wade – Was the Supreme Court Wrong?

I am a strong supporter of a woman’s right to choose and, like many others, am keenly upset with the recent ruling of the Supreme Court to reverse Roe vs Wade. I did not like it at all!! But were they wrong? According to the Constitution, I don’t think so. The Tenth Amendment to the […]